(Gelder 1996: 3 Frayling 1996: 98-99) thus, Stoker admitted that Johnson,ġ885), part of which he included in his novel almost word for word Crosse, 1878), On the Track of theĬrescent: Erratic Notes from the Piraeus to Pesth (Major E. Rising in the vale between the higher mountains", the town of Bistritz, the Bistritz Castle, the roads), RoundĪbout the Carpathians (Andrew F.
Of the Carpathian area-the Borgo Pass, "a ridge of low hills Boner, 1865 details about the history and geography Travelogues and ethnographies such as Transylvania: Its Products and Its Guides (Baedeker's Southern Germany and Austria, Including HungaryĪnd Transylvania), books and treaties (Frayling 1996: 83-90), Given in newspapers (Whitby Gazette), naval documents and maps, travel Inscriptions from various tombstones (near Whitby Church), information Had never visited Transylvania, Bram Stoker started researchingĭocuments in museums (British Museum Whitby Museum, Yorkshire),Īrchives and libraries (Subscription Library, Whitby) he found Nightmare is but a nightmare, not something enough for a story. Which the writer saw "a vampire king rising from the tomb to goĪbout his ghastly business" (Ludlam 1977: 112). Supposedly, the idea for the novel was given by a nightmare in The vampire lore so widely spread in Central Europe, a region whereĬountless battles between Christians and Turks had taken place for Influenced by the Gaelic-based Irish legends, Stoker could not overlook The difference between Dracula and all other vampire stories isĪchieved by interlacing between folklore and history. Popular hero, detested by most people, but very much admired by others. Such a tremendous symbolical force that, in time, it became a true Irish writer authored the world-famous image of a creature endowed with Literarily, theĪrchetypal vampire monster transcending time and space, the mainĬharacter of the novel Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897), a gothic andĪllegoric tale that renders evident primordial struggles such as theĮternal fight between the dark and the light, the conflict betweenĬhrist and Satan, the complex allegories of sex (Wolf 1993: VII). MedicallyĪnd psychologically, a normal and abnormal character. Retrieved from ĭracula: historical character, legendary figure, myth. APA style: Dead, undead, but still alive.Dead, undead, but still alive." Retrieved from 2013 Addleton Academic Publishers 05 May. MLA style: "Dead, undead, but still alive." The Free Library.
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